WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1oTH. 
Annual General BWeeting. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 1oTH, 18ot. 
During the past year an effort has been made to give to the 
scientific work of the Society a more definite and systematic form. 
A circular was issued to Members on March 3rd last, asking for 
their co-operation in a scheme which the Council had sanctioned 
for the formation of Sectional Committees who were to take charge 
of certain branches of Science. It may, perhaps, not be out of 
place to quote here a passage from the circular explanatory of its 
aims and objects. 
“The object which the Council more particularly has in view 
is the investigation of the Archeology and Natural History of the 
County of Sussex. For this purpose each Section will endeavour 
to associate with it in its work all those, whether Members of the 
Society or not, who take an interest in that branch of Science, and 
who will undertake, as far as they conveniently can, the careful 
observation and recording of those facts which may be of service 
to the student and investigator.” 
Six Sections have been formed, and the following gentlemen 
have kindly offered to assist any Member who may be pursuing 
studies connected with his particular department, and to report to 
the Council any facts of interest wnich may come to his know- 
ledge, viz. :— 
Archeology, Mr. de Paris; Botany, Mr. Lomax; Entomology, 
Mr. A. Griffith ; Geology, Mr. Pankhurst; Meteorology, Dr. 
Newsholme ; Microscopy, Mr. Caush ; Zoology, Mr. Borrer. 
Mr. D. E. Caush, who has for the last five years kindly acted 
as the Society’s Hon. Librarian, and under whose auspices the 
